This Symposium considers all aspects of communication-based automatic control network systems Both colleagues from academia and from industry are cordially invited to contribute to this tri-annual symposium. Topics of interest are:
All submissions must be done through the IFAC Conference Manuscript Management System website at https://ifac.papercept.net/. When preparing the paper manuscript the authors should adhere to the IFAC style files for conference papers.
All submitted papers must be written in English and are limited to 6 pages.
All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the symposium, will be hosted on-line on the IFAC-PapersOnLine website and will be indexed in SCOPUS.
Researchers who would like to organise one or more Invited Sessions on topics falling within the scope of the conference are invited to submit a proposal for consideration. This should include: the title of the session, a copy of the session abstract as well as individual paper abstracts from each of the proposed participants. Through the submission website, please submit an invited session proposal.
An invited session identification code will be communicated to the corresponding proposer and should be used by the prospective contributors.
All publication material submitted for presentation at an IFAC-sponsored meeting (Congress, Symposium, Conference, Workshop) must be original and hence cannot be already published, nor can it be under review elsewhere. The authors take responsibility for the material that has been submitted. IFAC-sponsored conferences will abide by the highest standard of ethical behavior in the review process as explained on the Elsevier webpage (https://www.elsevier.com/authors/journal-authors/policies-and-ethics), and the authors will abide by the IFAC publication ethics guidelines (https://www.ifac-control.org/events/organizers- guide/PublicationEthicsGuidelines.pdf/view).
Accepted papers that have been presented at an IFAC meeting will be published in the proceedings of the event using the open-access IFAC-PapersOnLine series hosted on ScienceDirect (https://sciencedirect.com/). To this end, the author(s) must grant exclusive publishing rights to IFAC under a Creative Commons license when they submit the final version of the paper. The copyright belongs to the authors, who have the right to share the paper in the same terms allowed by the end user license, and retain all patent, trademark and other intellectual property rights (including research data).
Important dates:
Submission of draft papers*:
April 18, 2022 January 30th, 2022
*regular, invited paper or session
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